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CTIA And Carriers Cooperate For Katrina Relief Code

Sep 7, 2005, 2:26 PM by (staff)

The CTIA announced that US mobile subscribers can now send a text message to 2HELP (24357) to donate to the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund. Each time the message "help" is sent to the short code, subscribers will be asked to confirm a $5 donation that will be deducted from their prepaid account or added to their monthly statement. Each users can donate up to 5 times for a maximum of $25. Nearly every national and regional carrier has confirmed they are participating in the 2HELP program.

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uscellchick87

Sep 8, 2005, 9:12 AM

US Cellular?

Does anybody know if US Cellular is participating in this? My resources are not aware of this relief effort?

Daenerys

they unfortunately are not

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miball

Sep 7, 2005, 9:28 PM

Tried with T-Mobile, no sucess

I just tried to send with my T-Mobile phone and got the following reply:

"HELP: Thx for ur support. Sorry, we can't process ur request. Please visit redcross.org or call 1-800-435-7669 to donate for the Hurricane Relief Effort.

Guess T-Mobile isn't setup yet???

mrdeth

NO AND WHY SHOULD THEY BE

smcgarvey6

Sep 8, 2005, 10:21 PM

Verizon Works

I just sent through Verizon Wireless and it went through 😁

deliriumlush

Sep 7, 2005, 2:37 PM

great idea

wow that is a really great idea. i am going to tell all my friends, co-workers and customers about that. It is a really easy way to give donations to the katrina relief.

KevC84

I think a lot of people would want to donate to the relief efforts however they may not know the means or it may be too difficult for them. Lots of people still may be afraid to give it out thier credit card information over the internet. With this id...
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